Date: February 15, 2010
Ref.: DACS on Bell 429

NAT Announces DACS
(Digital Audio Control System)
Installed on First Commercial Delivery of Bell 429

PRESCOTT, Arizona - Cobham’s Digital Audio Control System (DACS) has been installed and will be certified on the first commercial delivery of a Bell 429 air medical helicopter. The Products Division of Air Methods, the world’s leading air ambulance operator, performed the DACS installation at its headquarters in Colorado. The Bell 429, owned and operated by Air Methods, is slated to be delivered to the company’s Mercy One hospital-based program in Des Moines, Iowa in March 2010.

Additionally, because Air Methods has earned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) status, the company was able to secure the Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for the DACS installation. Future DACS installations in the Bell 429 and other airframes should result in shorter certification flow times because of Air Methods’ ODA status.

Air Methods’ Bell 429 will be on display in Bell Helicopter booth #132 at Heli-Expo February 21; Cobham is in Booth #4405.

About Cobham:
Cobham’s products and services have been at the heart of sophisticated military and civil systems for more than 75 years, keeping people safe, improving communications and enhancing the capability of land, sea, air and space platforms. The Company has four divisions employing more than 12,000 people on five continents, with customers and partners in over 100 countries and annual revenues of more than £1.4bn / $1.X billion.

Contacts:
Ray Lewis
Business Development Manager, International
Cobham Avionics
T: (888) 763-2232
T: (250) 763-2232
rayl@natech.com

James Huddock
Business Development Manager
Cobham Avionics
C: (928) 273-9393
T: (928) 708-1550
james.huddock@cobham.com